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  • in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of January 12, 2025? #45226
    RiversideLen
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      I made a vanilla cake from a box mix. I subbed milk for the water, Greek yogurt for half of the oil and added a rounded tablespoon of flax seed meal (hydrated in an ounce of water) to give it a little fiber (that makes it a health food). I was going to make a simple chocolate frosting but found all my powdered sugar was very much past it's best use by date (I had 2 bags, one older than the other). But I have plenty of chocolate chips on hand so I made a chocolate ganache from some semi sweet chips, added a pinch of instant (decaf) coffee crystals to it. Topped it with shredded coconut. It all came out pretty good.

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 12, 2025? #45223
      RiversideLen
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        That sounds like a real nice meal, BA. I haven't had black-eyed peas in a long time.

        Tonight, I had turkey with gravy over a baked potato.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 12, 2025? #45219
        RiversideLen
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          I made a little chicken veg soup and had it with turkey.

          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of January 12, 2025? #45217
          RiversideLen
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            I'm making a batch of semolina/rye/wheat buns. Just waiting for them to rise and then into the oven.

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45208
            RiversideLen
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              Thanks Joan and BA.

              Tonight's dinner was a replay of yesterday's although I forgot the cranberry sauce!

              BA, the sour cream filling sounds good. For mine I just used a little butter and half and half (I have some half and half on hand but otherwise would use milk). I've made them without cheese, with some paprika sprinkled on top. I don't make them often because I usually don't buy large Russets, more often than not I get a bag of smaller Yukon's or red skins.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45196
              RiversideLen
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                I made a boneless turkey breast. Had it with twice baked potato (haven't made that in years), green beans with carrot and mushrooms and cranberry sauce.

                turkey

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                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45191
                RiversideLen
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                  I made pork tacos, roasted potato and brussels sprouts and carrots.

                  in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45172
                  RiversideLen
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                    Thank you, Joan, I have a slice set aside for you but you better hurry!

                    The bottom of the crust is nicely brown. I thought maybe I overbaked it just a little because the upper crust was a little hard but after covering it overnight it softened up, so it's fine.

                    Today I'm making a batch of my burger/sandwich buns.

                    in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45169
                    RiversideLen
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                      Monday I made a pork butt roast. Roasted it at 250 degrees until it reached an internal temperature of 205 degrees (per a youtube video, that is supposed to be the optimal temperature). It took about 6 hours. It came out pretty tender and tasty. The slow roast cooks out a fair amount of fat.

                      pork-butt

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                      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45158
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                        I forgot to set a timer and over baked it by about 5 minutes. Otherwise I think it came out pretty good.

                        Cherry-Pi

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                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of January 5, 2025? #45154
                        RiversideLen
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                          Baked custard sounds like baking to me (baked is in the name!)

                          I'm making a fresh (sweet) cherry pie. Cherries are from Argentina. I don't think I've ever made a fresh cherry pie, so I looked on youtube to get some ideas.

                          I pitted about 4 cups of cherries and mixed them with 1/4 cup of sugar, then put them in a saucier and cooked them a little. They gave up a lot of juice. I tasted them for sweetness, it was just about right. Then I estimated how much corn starch to use, mixed about 3 tablespoons with 1/8 cup more of sugar and mixed it in the cherries off the heat. It thickened up pretty good, so I'm sure that was the right amount. Then I mixed in a little lemon juice, a big pat of butter and about a tsp of vanilla, stirred it up and it looked just fine. After the filling cooled down, I filled the pie shell (pie crust is the store bought refrigerated kind that you unroll). It's in the oven now, I'll post a pic later.

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45150
                          RiversideLen
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                            Beautiful cake, Joan!

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45149
                            RiversideLen
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                              I made some chicken soup with boxed bone broth, the legs of a rotisserie chicken, lentils, celery, carrots, green beans and a little cabbage (a few noodles too, chicken soup has to have noodles). Had it with a burger.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45112
                              RiversideLen
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                                Making some chicken veg soup and will be having it with pizza.

                                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 29, 2024? #45108
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                                  I made the oatmeal cookies. In addition to the raisins, I added some chopped pecans and mini chocolate chips. This recipe yielded 50 cookies. I sampled a couple of them, pretty good. Nuts in cookies always enhances the flavor.

                                  cookie

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